Education
| Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date | 
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | 2018 | |
| University of California, San Francisco | Residency | School of Medicine | 
Clinical Trials
- Related Conditions: Obesity| Start Date: | End Date:
 - Long Term Clinical Efficacy of Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) Inhibitor in Cystinurics (NCT05058859)Related Conditions: Cystinuria| Start Date: | End Date:
 - The Effect of Sodium-glucose Cotransporter (SGLT) 2 Inhibitors on Cystine Stone Formation: A Preliminary Study (NCT04818034)Related Conditions: Cystinuria| Start Date: | End Date:
 
Grants and Funding
- Phase 2: Impact of Lipoic Acid on Cystine Nephrolithiasis; IND129545 (01/29/2016) | NIH | 2017-04-01 - 2023-03-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
 - Multiscale form and function can predict renal biomineralization | NIH | 2016-07-11 - 2019-06-30 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
 - Optimizing Kidney Stone Management Using Metallomics and Metabolomics | NIH | 2013-09-15 - 2017-07-31 | Role: Principal Investigator
 - A model of kidney stone disease using D. melanogaster | NIH | 2012-06-01 - 2015-05-31 | Role: Co-Principal Investigator
 
Publications
      MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 365
    
      
      - Modulators of urinary pH in the context of urinary stone disease: a literature review.| |
PubMed
 - Genetic Insights Into Nephrolithiasis and Renal Cancer Predisposition: Precision Medicine in Genes, Diagnosis, and Therapy.| |
PubMed
 - Reply by Authors.| |
PubMed
 - Response to the letter by Kleebayoon et al. Re: Sui et al. 'Re-defining the interpretation of 24-h urine studies for stone formers'.| |
PubMed
 - Acoustic Enhancer Microbubble Cavitation: A Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a Novel Treatment for Urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Trace element content is associated with urolith type in goats and pigs diagnosed with urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Re-defining the interpretation of 24-h urine studies for stone formers.| |
PubMed
 - Longer Preoperative Antibiotic Duration Prior to High-Risk Ureteroscopy Does Not Decrease Infectious Complications.| |
PubMed
 - The potential role of Sodium/Glucose Cotransporter 2 inhibitors in the treatment of cystinuria.| |
PubMed
 - Reply to Editorial Comment on "The Yield of Genetic Testing in Management of Nephrolithiasis".| |
PubMed
 - A Novel Machine-Learning Algorithm to Predict Stone Recurrence with 24-Hour Urine Data.| |
PubMed
 - Preventive Pharmacologic Therapy for Kidney Stone Disease.| |
PubMed
 - The Yield of Genetic Testing in Management of Nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Renal Autotransplantation: Association Between Preoperative Disease Duration and Surgical Outcomes.| |
PubMed
 - Case presentation and review of renal autotransplantation for nutcracker syndrome.| |
PubMed
 - Ureteral avulsion after ureteroscopy treated with renal auto-transplantation.| |
PubMed
 - Reimagining Ambulatory Care in Urology: Conversion of the Urology Clinic into a Procedure Center Improves Patient's Experience.| |
PubMed
 - A Case Report of Kidney-Only Transplantation in Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1: A Novel Approach with the Use of Nedosiran.| |
PubMed
 - Organic Matrix Derived from Host-Microbe Interplay Contributes to Pathological Renal Biomineralization.| |
PubMed
 - Clinical and postoperative characteristics of stentless ureteroscopy patients: a prospective analysis from ReSKU.| |
PubMed
 - Effects of Delayed Surgical Intervention Following Emergency Department Presentation on Stone Surgery Complexity.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasound-Only Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Is Safe and Effective Compared to Fluoroscopy-Directed Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Voided volume may not impact stone outcomes: Review of a large institutional nephrolithiasis cohort.| |
PubMed
 - Plasma formation in holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy.| |
PubMed
 - Mechanobactericidal Nanotopography on Nitrile Surfaces toward Antimicrobial Protective Gear.| |
PubMed
 - Maternal family history of urolithiasis is associated with earlier age of onset of stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Single-Use Ureteroscopes Are Associated with Decreased Risk of Urinary Tract Infection After Ureteroscopy for Urolithiasis Compared to Reusable Ureteroscopes.| |
PubMed
 - Determinants of ureteral obstruction after percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Underinsurance And Multiple Surgical Treatments for Kidney Stones.| |
PubMed
 - The Journey and Barriers to Treatment of Patients With Renal Nutcracker Syndrome.| |
PubMed
 - Re: Fragmentation of Stones by Burst Wave Lithotripsy in the First 19 Humans.| |
PubMed
 - Comprehensive proteomic quantification of bladder stone progression in a cystinuric mouse model using data-independent acquisitions.| |
PubMed
 - Multi-Institutional Variation in Performance of Low-Dose Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Suspected Nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Therapeutic Living Donor Nephrectomy for Proximal Ureteral Pathology: A Longitudinal Case Series.| |
PubMed
 - Standardization of mineral density maps of physiologic and pathologic biominerals in humans using cone-beam CT and micro-CT scanners.| |
PubMed
 - A fly GWAS for purine metabolites identifies human FAM214 homolog medusa, which acts in a conserved manner to enhance hyperuricemia-driven pathologies by modulating purine metabolism and the inflammatory response.| |
PubMed
 - Is "Benign" Urology Benign?| |
PubMed
 - Perspectives in primary hyperoxaluria - historical, current and future clinical interventions.| |
PubMed
 - Mineralized Peyronie's plaque has a phenotypic resemblance to bone.| |
PubMed
 - Community Income, Healthy Food Access, and Repeat Surgery for Kidney Stones.| |
PubMed
 - A large staghorn stone diagnosed and managed in an asymptomatic patient using the "Kidney Injury Test (Kit)" spot urine assay: A case report.| |
PubMed
 - The erector spinae plane block can facilitate outpatient stone surgery by reducing breakthrough pain.| |
PubMed
 - Corrigendum to "Physicochemical and biochemical spatiotemporal maps of a mouse penis". [J. Biomech. 101 (2020) 109637].| |
PubMed
 - Nedosiran Dramatically Reduces Serum Oxalate in Dialysis-Dependent Primary Hyperoxaluria 1: A Compassionate Use Case Report.| |
PubMed
 - Structure and elemental composition of Ceftriaxone induced pediatric nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Structural and chemical heterogeneities of primary hyperoxaluria kidney stones from pediatric patients.| |
PubMed
 - Low Urologist Density Predicts High-Cost Surgical Treatment of Stone Disease.| |
PubMed
 - Diagnostic Imaging for Kidney Stones.| |
PubMed
 - Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.| |
PubMed
 - Ectopic biomineralization in kidney stone formers compared to non-stone formers.| |
PubMed
 - Underdiagnosis of Primary Hyperparathyroidism-The Need for a System-Level Fix.| |
PubMed
 - Role of core body temperature in nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Jean Oliver: Master of the Nephron.| |
PubMed
 - A rare presentation of hepatolithiasis in an adolescent patient: A case report.| |
PubMed
 - Stone formation in patients less than 20 years of age is associated with higher rates of stone recurrence: Results from the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter (ReSKU).| |
PubMed
 - Fatty acid-binding protein 4 downregulation drives calcification in the development of kidney stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Non-radiological assessment of kidney stones using the kidney injury test (KIT), a spot urine assay.| |
PubMed
 - Physicochemical and biochemical spatiotemporal maps of a mouse penis.| |
PubMed
 - Letter to the Editor RE: Spradling and Conti, Editorial Comment on: Nonrenal Systemic Arterial Calcifications Predicts the Formation of Kidney Stones by Stern et al. (From: Stern KL, Ward RD, Li J, et al. J Endourol 2019;33:1035; DOI: 10.1089/end.2019.067| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasound guidance can be used safely for renal tract dilatation during percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Techniques - Ultrasound-guided percutaneous nephrolithotomy: How we do it.| |
PubMed
 - The Impact of Stone Multiplicity on Surgical Decisions for Patients with Large Stone Burden: Results from ReSKU.| |
PubMed
 - A conserved role of the insulin-like signaling pathway in diet-dependent uric acid pathologies in Drosophila melanogaster.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasound-guided Access and Dilation for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in the Supine Position: A Step-by-Step Approach.| |
PubMed
 - Nonrenal Systemic Arterial Calcification Predicts the Formation of Kidney Stones.| |
PubMed
 - Computed Tomography Radiation Exposure Among Referred Kidney Stone Patients: Results from the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter.| |
PubMed
 - Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Stone Burden at Presentation to Tertiary Referral Center: Data From the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter.| |
PubMed
 - Experimental observations and numerical modeling of lipid-shell microbubbles with calcium-adhering moieties for minimally-invasive treatment of urinary stones.| |
PubMed
 - Factors Associated with Regional Adoption of Ureteroscopy in California from 2005 to 2016.| |
PubMed
 - Novel insights into renal mineralization and stone formation through advanced imaging modalities.| |
PubMed
 - The protease-activated receptor 4 Ala120Thr variant alters platelet responsiveness to low-dose thrombin and protease-activated receptor 4 desensitization, and is blocked by non-competitive P2Y12 inhibition.| |
PubMed
 - Re: Geobiology Reveals How Human Kidney Stones Dissolve In Vivo.| |
PubMed
 - Open versus robotic partial nephrectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis of contemporary studies.| |
PubMed
 - Architecture-Guided Fluid Flow Directs Renal Biomineralization.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasound-Guided Morcellation During Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate.| |
PubMed
 - Beginnings of nephrolithiasis: insights into the past, present and future of Randall's plaque formation research.| |
PubMed
 - Risk of Nephrolithiasis in Patients With Sleep Apnea: A Population-Based Cohort Study.| |
PubMed
 - The Morbidity of Ureteral Strictures in Patients with Prior Ureteroscopic Stone Surgery: Multi-Institutional Outcomes.| |
PubMed
 - Management of Inverted Papilloma During Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic Heminephrectomy of Chronically Obstructed Horseshoe Kidney Moiety with Staghorn Calculus, Massive Pyonephrosis, and Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis.| |
PubMed
 - A continuum of mineralization from human renal pyramid to stones on stems.| |
PubMed
 - Micro-Costing Analysis Demonstrates Comparable Costs for LithoVue Compared to Reusable Flexible Fiberoptic Ureteroscopes.| |
PubMed
 - Clinical Outcomes for Cystinuria Patients with Unilateral Versus Bilateral Cystine Stone Disease.| |
PubMed
 - Identifying factors associated with need for flexible ureteroscope repair: a Western Endourology STone (WEST) research consortium prospective cohort study.| |
PubMed
 - Anatomically-specific intratubular and interstitial biominerals in the human renal medullo-papillary complex.| |
PubMed
 - Variation in Radiologic and Urologic Computed Tomography Interpretation of Urinary Tract Stone Burden: Results From the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter.| |
PubMed
 - Defining the Costs of Reusable Flexible Ureteroscope Reprocessing Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing.| |
PubMed
 - Magnetic Compression Anastomosis (Magnamosis): First-In-Human Trial.| |
PubMed
 - Optimizing RNA Extraction of Renal Papilla Biopsy Tissue in Kidney Stone Formers: A New Methodology for Genomic Study.| |
PubMed
 - Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound as a Radiation-Free Alternative to Fluoroscopic Nephrostogram for Evaluating Ureteral Patency.| |
PubMed
 - Mass Spectrometry-based in vitro Assay to Identify Drugs that Influence Cystine Solubility.| |
PubMed
 - Flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate (TDCPP) toxicity is attenuated by N-acetylcysteine in human kidney cells.| |
PubMed
 - A Prospective Case-Control Study Comparing LithoVue, a Single-Use, Flexible Disposable Ureteroscope, with Flexible, Reusable Fiber-Optic Ureteroscopes.| |
PubMed
 - Medical expulsive therapy use in emergency department patients diagnosed with ureteral stones.| |
PubMed
 - α-Lipoic acid treatment prevents cystine urolithiasis in a mouse model of cystinuria.| |
PubMed
 - Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis for the Enumeration and Characterization of Mineralo-Organic Nanoparticles in Feline Urine.| |
PubMed
 - Complete Metabolic Evaluation is Indicated after a First Stone Event: Con.| |
PubMed
 - Dietary Zinc and Incident Calcium Kidney Stones in Adolescence.| |
PubMed
 - Animal models of urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Rationale and Design of the Registry for Stones of the Kidney and Ureter (ReSKU): A Prospective Observational Registry to Study the Natural History of Urolithiasis Patients.| |
PubMed
 - Emergency Department Imaging Modality Effect on Surgical Management of Nephrolithiasis: A Multicenter, Randomized Clinical Trial.| |
PubMed
 - Feasibility of Antegrade Contrast-enhanced US Nephrostograms to Evaluate Ureteral Patency.| |
PubMed
 - The Role of the 24-Hour Urine Collection in the Prevention of Kidney Stone Recurrence.| |
PubMed
 - Emphysematous pyelonephritis: the impact of urolithiasis on disease severity.| |
PubMed
 - Effect of Tamsulosin on Stone Passage for Ureteral Stones: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.| |
PubMed
 - The origins of urinary stone disease: upstream mineral formations initiate downstream Randall's plaque.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasonography is an Adequate Initial Screening Test for Urinary Calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Significant differences in struvite and cystine stone frequency seen among Chinese nephrolithiasis patients living in North America compared to those living in China.| |
PubMed
 - Methylene Blue Injection as an Alternative to Antegrade Nephrostography to Assess Urinary Obstruction After Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasound-Guided Renal Access for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: A Description of Three Novel Ultrasound-Guided Needle Techniques.| |
PubMed
 - Coronary Artery Calcium Score and Association with Recurrent Nephrolithiasis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.| |
PubMed
 - The elementome of calcium-based urinary stones and its role in urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - A Spectrum: Nephrocalcinosis-Nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Elemental Content of Calcium Oxalate Stones from a Canine Model of Urinary Stone Disease.| |
PubMed
 - A Drosophila model identifies a critical role for zinc in mineralization for kidney stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic Nephrectomy with Autotransplantation: Safety, Efficacy and Long-Term Durability.| |
PubMed
 - Targeted microbubbles: a novel application for the treatment of kidney stones.| |
PubMed
 - Determinants of nephrostomy tube dislodgment after percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Vascular theory of the formation of Randall plaques.| |
PubMed
 - Ultrasonography versus computed tomography for suspected nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Dyslipidemia is associated with an increased risk of nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Alexander Randall may have had it right after all.| |
PubMed
 - Balancing the utility of new technology against cost in urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Gastric bypass surgery patients warrant special attention for preventing urinary stones.| |
PubMed
 - Kidney stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Looking beyond the guidelines for perioperative antibiotics in nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Making sense of dietary calcium and urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Moderation may be the best fad diet for urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Reactive oxygen species may unite many mechanisms by which calcium oxalate stones form.| |
PubMed
 - The days of cost effective management for nephrolithiasis are already upon us.| |
PubMed
 - The link between metabolic syndrome and nephrolithiasis: a white whale for understanding urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Treating the cystine stone former presents a singular clinical challenge.| |
PubMed
 - Ureteral stents are part of an ever-expanding technology horizon.| |
PubMed
 - Dietary intake of fiber, fruit and vegetables decreases the risk of incident kidney stones in women: a Women's Health Initiative report.| |
PubMed
 - Activity, energy intake, obesity, and the risk of incident kidney stones in postmenopausal women: a report from the Women's Health Initiative.| |
PubMed
 - Impact of statins on nephrolithiasis in hyperlipidemic patients: a 10-year review of an equal access health care system.| |
PubMed
 - Drosophila melanogaster as an emerging translational model of human nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Renal calyceal anatomy characterization with 3-dimensional in vivo computerized tomography imaging.| |
PubMed
 - Strontium substitution for calcium in lithogenesis.| |
PubMed
 - Complications associated with percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - New insights into the pathogenesis of renal calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Microcomposition of human urinary calculi using advanced imaging techniques.| |
PubMed
 - Systemic implications of urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Impact of nutritional factors on incident kidney stone formation: a report from the WHI OS.| |
PubMed
 - Randall plaque versus renal stone?| |
PubMed
 - Impact of calcium intake and intestinal calcium absorption on kidney stones in older women: the study of osteoporotic fractures.| |
PubMed
 - Relative renal function does not improve after relieving chronic renal obstruction.| |
PubMed
 - Urinary parameters as predictors of primary hyperparathyroidism in patients with nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Differences in metabolic urinary abnormalities in stone forming and nonstone forming patients with primary hyperparathyroidism.| |
PubMed
 - Stones: Passing a stone in your sleep might be easier than you think.| |
PubMed
 - Effect of diet orange soda on urinary lithogenicity.| |
PubMed
 - Selective arterial embolization of angiomyolipomas: a comparison of smaller and larger embolic agents.| |
PubMed
 - Use of Google Insights for Search to track seasonal and geographic kidney stone incidence in the United States.| |
PubMed
 - Kidney stones and subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults: the CARDIA study.| |
PubMed
 - Laterality of nephrocalcinosis in kidney stone formers with severe hypocitraturia.| |
PubMed
 - Medical and medical/urologic approaches in acute and chronic urologic stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Gender differences in subcutaneous and perirenal fat distribution.| |
PubMed
 - Adequacy of a single 24-hour urine collection for metabolic evaluation of recurrent nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Relationship between body mass index and quantitative 24-hour urine chemistries in patients with nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Citrate, malate and alkali content in commonly consumed diet sodas: implications for nephrolithiasis treatment.| |
PubMed
 - Diabetic kidney stone formers excrete more oxalate and have lower urine pH than nondiabetic stone formers.| |
PubMed
 - The role of race in determining 24-hour urine composition in white and Asian/Pacific Islander stone formers.| |
PubMed
 - An ex-vivo evaluation of the application and strength of a novel laparoscopic knot substitute device.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic excision of urachal cysts in elderly men and woman following pregnancy.| |
PubMed
 - Hypertension is associated with increased urinary calcium excretion in patients with nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Emphysematous cystitis.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic extravesical ureteral reimplantation for iatrogenic distal ureteral stricture.| |
PubMed
 - Lower-pole fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous renal access: which calix is posterior?| |
PubMed
 - Impact of urine sodium on urine risk factors for calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Differences in quantitative urine composition in stone-forming versus unaffected mate kidneys.| |
PubMed
 - Obstructive uropathy.| |
PubMed
 - Influence of body mass index on quantitative 24-hour urine chemistry studies in children with nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Renal arteriovenous malformation.| |
PubMed
 - Hyperoxaluria after modern bariatric surgery: case series and literature review.| |
PubMed
 - Ureteral stone location at emergency room presentation with colic.| |
PubMed
 - Endoscopic management of retained renal foreign bodies.| |
PubMed
 - Effect of laser insult on devices used to prevent stone retropulsion during ureteroscopic lithotripsy.| |
PubMed
 - Use of an antiretropulsion device to prevent stone retropulsion significantly increases the efficiency of pneumatic lithotripsy: an in vitro study.| |
PubMed
 - Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism--why do some form stones?| |
PubMed
 - Differentiating primary from secondary hyperparathyroidism in stone patients: the "thiazide challenge".| |
PubMed
 - Effect of laser insult on devices used to prevent stone retropulsion during ureteroscopic lithotripsy.| |
PubMed
 - Changes in urinary stone risk factors in hypocitraturic calcium oxalate stone formers treated with dietary sodium supplementation.| |
PubMed
 - Percutaneous management of stones in transplanted kidneys.| |
PubMed
 - Association between Randall's plaque and calcifying nanoparticles.| |
PubMed
 - Endoscopic management of obstructive complications in ureterosigmoidostomy.| |
PubMed
 - Oral calcium supplementation associated with decreased likelihood of nephrolithiasis prior to surgery for hyperparathyroidism.| |
PubMed
 - Long-term outcomes and late complications of laparoscopic nephrectomy with renal autotransplantation.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic nephrectomy, ex vivo partial nephrectomy followed by allograft renal transplantation.| |
PubMed
 - Urinary citrate levels do not correlate with urinary pH in patients with urinary stone formation.| |
PubMed
 - Effect of body position on renal parenchyma perfusion as measured by nuclear scintigraphy.| |
PubMed
 - Minimizing and managing bleeding after percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Traditional Foley drainage systems--do they drain the bladder?| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic versus open cytoreductive nephrectomy in advanced renal-cell carcinoma.| |
PubMed
 - The effect of kidney morcellation on operative time, incision complications, and postoperative analgesia after laparoscopic nephrectomy.| |
PubMed
 - Images in clinical medicine. Bilateral renal-vein thrombosis associated with the nephrotic syndrome.| |
PubMed
 - Novel everting urologic access sheath: potential advantages of decreased cellular advancement.| |
PubMed
 - Novel everting urologic access sheath: decreased axial forces during insertion.| |
PubMed
 - Risk of injury to adjacent organs with lower-pole fluoroscopically guided percutaneous nephrostomy: evaluation with prone, supine, and multiplanar reformatted CT.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic appreciation of the adrenal artery: fact or fiction?| |
PubMed
 - More than 500 consecutive laparoscopic donor nephrectomies without conversion or repeated surgery.| |
PubMed
 - Failed percutaneous balloon dilation for renal access: incidence and risk factors.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic management of peripelvic renal cysts: University of California, San Francisco, experience and review of literature.| |
PubMed
 - Rethinking urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Bursting strength with various methods of renal artery ligation and potential mechanisms of failure.| |
PubMed
 - Percutaneous neuromodulation.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: a large single-center experience.| |
PubMed
 - Differences in complications and outcomes for obese patients undergoing laparoscopic radical, partial or simple nephrectomy.| |
PubMed
 - Symptomatic perirenal serous cysts of müllerian origin mimicking renal cysts on CT.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic nephrectomy, ex vivo excision and autotransplantation for complex renal tumors.| |
PubMed
 - Spatial ability, experience, and skill in laparoscopic surgery.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic-assisted upper pole ureterocalicostomy using renal inversion and autotransplantation.| |
PubMed
 - Technique, indications and outcomes of pure laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy.| |
PubMed
 - The primary stone event: a new hypothesis involving a vascular etiology.| |
PubMed
 - Pure laparoscopic right donor nephrectomy: step-by-step approach.| |
PubMed
 - Radiologic appreciation of a spontaneous splenorenal shunt.| |
PubMed
 - Stone clustering of patients with cystine urinary stone formation.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy with temporary arterial occlusion: description of technique and renal functional outcomes.| |
PubMed
 - Precaval right renal arteries: prevalence and morphologic associations at spiral CT.| |
PubMed
 - The argument against the routine use of ureteral access sheaths.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy for pediatric recipients: outcomes analysis.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic appreciation of perirenal attachments.| |
PubMed
 - Re: Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy: incorporating the advantages of hand assisted and standard laparoscopy.| |
PubMed
 - Upper quadrant access for urologic laparoscopy.| |
PubMed
 - Hellström technique revisited: laparoscopic management of ureteropelvic junction obstruction.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for suspected renal cell carcinoma in dialysis-dependent patients.| |
PubMed
 - Laterality of symptomatic cystine calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Simplified pure laparoscopic bowel anastomosis.| |
PubMed
 - Pure laparoscopic ileovesicostomy.| |
PubMed
 - Sclerosing peritonitis.| |
PubMed
 - Pathologic sampling of laparoscopically morcellated kidneys: a mathematical model.| |
PubMed
 - Expanded experience with laparoscopic nephrectomy and autotransplantation for severe ureteral injury.| |
PubMed
 - Cytology of morcellated renal specimens: significance in diagnosis and dissemination.| |
PubMed
 - Infection and urinary stones.| |
PubMed
 - Infections and urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Techniques to optimize vascular control during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.| |
PubMed
 - Cystinuria and other noncalcareous calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Uric acid nephrolithiasis: current concepts and controversies.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic linear cutting stapler failure.| |
PubMed
 - Precaval right renal artery: description and embryologic origin.| |
PubMed
 - Muconephrosis.| |
PubMed
 - Calcium nephrolithiasis: effect of water hardness on urinary electrolytes.| |
PubMed
 - Complete laparoscopic ileal cystoplasty.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic intracorporeal square-to-slip knot.| |
PubMed
 - Simultaneous laparoscopic management of 3 urological malignancies.| |
PubMed
 - Re: Gastric patch pyeloplasty: development of an animal model to produce upper tract urinary acidification for treating struvite urinary calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Pure laparoscopic enterocystoplasty.| |
PubMed
 - Renal carcinoma after laparoscopic cyst decortication.| |
PubMed
 - The use of fibrin sealant in urology.| |
PubMed
 - Donor-gifted allograft urolithiasis: early percutaneous management.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic nephrectomy for inflammatory renal conditions.| |
PubMed
 - Novel method of assessing surgical margin status in laparoscopic specimens.| |
PubMed
 - Radially expanding laparoscopic access for renal/adrenal surgery.| |
PubMed
 - Radially expanding single-step nephrostomy tract dilator.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic nephrectomy and autotransplantation for severe iatrogenic ureteral injuries.| |
PubMed
 - Transperitoneal preperitoneal laparoscopic lumbar incisional herniorrhaphy.| |
PubMed
 - Treatment of refractory kidney transplant ureteral strictures using balloon cautery endoureterotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Kidney morcellation in laparoscopic nephrectomy for tumor: recommendations for specimen sampling and pathologic tumor staging.| |
PubMed
 - Retained laser fiber ureteral calculus.| |
PubMed
 - The laparoscopic cigarette sponge.| |
PubMed
 - Correlation of unilateral urolithiasis with sleep posture.| |
PubMed
 - Rethinking the role of urinary magnesium in calcium urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy at the University of California San Francisco.| |
PubMed
 - Gahat: a Napalese cure for urolithiasis?| |
PubMed
 - Indinavir urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Percutaneous management of caliceal diverticula.| |
PubMed
 - Endourologic management of urinary fistulae.| |
PubMed
 - Metabolic and urinary risk factors associated with Randall's papillary plaques.| |
PubMed
 - Impact of body weight on urinary electrolytes in urinary stone formers.| |
PubMed
 - The vesical calculus.| |
PubMed
 - An in vitro assessment of the flow characteristics of spiral-ridged and smooth-walled JJ ureteric stents.| |
PubMed
 - Gross hematuria secondary to renal vein hypertension from unilateral retroperitoneal fibrosis.| |
PubMed
 - Complications of retrograde balloon cautery endopyelotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Nonsurgical management of infection-related renal calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Complications of percutaneous nephrostolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Linkage of type II and type III cystinuria to 19q13.1: codominant inheritance of two cystinuric alleles at 19q13.1 produces an extreme stone-forming phenotype.| |
PubMed
 - Autologous blood use in percutaneous nephrolithotomy.| |
PubMed
 - Urolithiasis in renal and combined pancreas/renal transplant recipients.| |
PubMed
 - Imaging characteristics of indinavir calculi.| |
PubMed
 - Case no. 1. Bilateral testicular pain. Tubular ectasia of rete testis.| |
PubMed
 - Case no. 2. Right testicular pain. Testicular microlithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Gastropyeloplasty: a swine model.| |
PubMed
 - Percutaneous access techniques in renal surgery.| |
PubMed
 - Electroacupuncture decreases c-fos expression in the spinal cord induced by noxious stimulation of the rat bladder.| |
PubMed
 - Urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Endoscopic mapping of renal papillae for Randall's plaques in patients with urinary stone disease.| |
PubMed
 - Geriatric urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Protease inhibitor-induced urolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Acalculous cystinuria.| |
PubMed
 - Conservative management of colon injury following percutaneous renal surgery.| |
PubMed
 - Urinary stone disease: a practical guide to metabolic evaluation.| |
PubMed
 - Uric acid-related nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Endoscopic management of upper tract urothelial tumors.| |
PubMed
 - High resolution radiography of cadaveric kidneys: unraveling the mystery of Randall's plaque formation.| |
PubMed
 - Dietary manipulation with lemonade to treat hypocitraturic calcium nephrolithiasis.| |
PubMed
 - Efficacy of retrograde endopyelotomy in children.| |
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 - The effect of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy on the microbiological flora of urinary calculi.| |
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